‘I don’t have the power’: JK Rowling won’t sack Paapa Essiedu from Harry Potter TV show over trans rights views

found 2025 › May › 06 (Tue) @ 15:25 UTC

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Author claims she neither wishes to, nor is capable of preventing the actor from playing Severus Snape in the upcoming HBO adaptation, following his signing of an open letter

JK Rowling has said she w…

Dark side of Roald Dahl: Author's anti-semitic views laid bare in blistering new play that serves as a reminder that the beloved author could be a cheat and a monster too

found 2025 › May › 04 (Sun) @ 12:35 UTC

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Roald Dahl 's reputation as one of the great children's storytellers is undeniable - yet the darker aspects of the author's worldview, reflected in the West End play Giant, have become barely less no…

My mothers’ group goes camping every year. A lot has changed, but I’m grateful we still have each other | Holly Wainwright

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 19:02 UTC

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Author Holly Wainwright reflects on her decade-long friendships with the women she met in a strip-lit shopping mall when her first child was a newborn

We knew it was coming. The camping trip when the …

Author Barbara Pym may have worked for MI5, research suggests

found 2025 › May › 01 (Thu) @ 05:45 UTC

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New work says novelist, who was a censor during second world war, may been employed to look for coded messages

It is an irony that she herself would have revelled in: Barbara Pym, the author who punct…

JK Rowling savages feminist's refusal to accept 'biology is destiny' as example of 'peak narcissism and lack of self awareness' - after they cite Harry Potter's Gryffindor house (that SHE created!!)

found 2025 › Apr › 20 (Sun) @ 13:10 UTC

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Author and activist JK Rowling has hit out at British journalist Laurie Penny in the wake of the Supreme Court 's ruling on the definition of women.

Tense moment Joe Rogan is brutally-criticized by famous British conservative on his own show

found 2025 › Apr › 11 (Fri) @ 14:50 UTC

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Author and columnist Douglas Murray appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience and challenged the superstar podcaster over the guests he brings on his show.

Pierce Brosnan's wife Keely's amazing weight loss: Author looks incredible at 61 amid her slimming journey - with support of Bond star who proudly declares: 'I love my wife's curves'

found 2025 › Apr › 03 (Thu) @ 06:55 UTC

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Pierce Brosnan's American wife Keely Shaye Smith has stunned fans with her incredible weight loss transformation - after losing an estimated seven stone.

Pierce Brosnan's wife Keely's '7st' weight loss: Author looks incredible at 61 amid her slimming journey - with support of Bond star who proudly declares: 'I love my wife's curves'

found 2025 › Apr › 03 (Thu) @ 00:50 UTC

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Pierce Brosnan's American wife Keely Shaye Smith has stunned fans with her incredible weight loss transformation - after losing an estimated seven stone.

Author Vincenzo Latronico: ‘I left Italy out of sadness’

found 2025 › Mar › 29 (Sat) @ 18:48 UTC

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The International Booker-longlisted Italian novelist on why he chose to rewrite Georges Perec, his preference for description over dialogue and being part of an anti-gentrification collective in Mila…

Author Richard Osman says he will 'take on Meta' to fight against AI copyright infringement

found 2025 › Mar › 25 (Tue) @ 07:00 UTC

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The television presenter hit back at the tech giant as it was revealed the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems.